An ordinary death chair.
Used before burial for people from two years and up who have died a natural death. It is made of wood and consists of two vertical pieces, tū'ud, the tops of which are tied to a horizontal pole tied to the foundation posts of a house. Three horizontal pieces are tied onto the two vertical pieces, one resting at the lower part of the back of the head, a middle piece to support the back and a lower seat on which the dead person sits. This latter seat consists of two boards, tied one on either side of the vertical pieces, making a seat about twenty centimeters wide. The dead person sits tied in the death chair, from one to five days before being removed and buried or taken to another housing cluster. The death chair is not transferred with the body. As long as the body has not been buried, an empty death chair is guarded by a few people. All death chairs are simultaneously thrown away at the time of burial.